Selling Africans

Harvard's Professor of African American Studies, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., recently wrote an interesting piece about the role of African elites in the slave trade. It seems doubtful to me that our contemporary rapacious African elites would not do the same thing today, if it were legal. Consider how many of them serve foregn interests in order to maintain power over their people! Gates' piece is applicable to many, if not most, contemporary African ruling elites.